Publications – AUA Press

FROM EARTHQUAKE TRAGEDY TO BEACON OF LIGHT: THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA

2024

Published by AUA Press, under the direction of Shushan Avagyan, the book chronicles the University’s 30-year journey of founding, growth, challenges, and achievements. It is the story of the American University of Armenia from the moment of its conceptualization after the Spitak earthquake of 1988, to its founding in 1991 under extremely challenging conditions, and its remarkable growth and advancement over the last three decades.The book was launched at AUA in December 2024.

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REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS

Translated by Gayane Tevosyan

2022

Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of It is the first book by the celebrated American writer to be available in Armenian. The translation rights were acquired from David Rieff, the son of Susan Sontag, through the Wylie Agency (UK) in 2020. The translation was undertaken by Gayane Tevosyan (CTr. ‘19), who worked closely with the editor and director of AUA Press, Shushan Avagyan, to produce an equally compelling text in Armenian. The book launch was hosted at AUA in October 2022.

OUR PLANET

and Irshat Madyarov

2020

A textbook for learning English around environmental topics. It comes with hands-on activities including community service and research projects.The book is authored by Diana Torosyan (MATEFL ’16) and Dr. Irshat Madyarov, chair of the Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language program. Torosyan embarked on the mission of creating a content-based course for teaching English on environmental topics within the scope of her capstone project. Under the supervision of Dr. Madyarov, she managed to develop her work into a thoroughly elaborated textbook.

NEGOTIATION OF DIFFERENCES IN THE SHARED URBAN SPACE

Edited by Alina Poghosyan and

2017

A collection of essays that encompass various insights into the experiences of Armenians and Turks sharing common urban space, negotiating differences, striving to attain or seize space for representations of belonging, identity, history, power, etc. The essays discuss the negotiation of differences in the shared urban space from the perspectives of urban planning, literature, musicology, and travel experiences.

LOCOMOTIVE

Issue #1, 2016

Locomotive, a journal of new writing, brings together innovative contemporary work by diverse global voices. Locomotive was published by the Center for Creative Writing at the American University of Armenia. The first issue includes works by Renee Gladman, Norbert Hirschhorn, Kate Northrop, Amina Said, and others. Locomotive was the first non-Armenian literary journal that was edited, published, and exported by Armenia to various bookstores around the world.

WE REFUGEES

2016

A volume of eight essays, articles, and other texts by political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) in Armenian translation. The translations were done within the scope of the Certificate in Translation Program at AUA. The volume includes: “We Refugees” (1943), “Expansion and the Philosophy of Power” (1946); “Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government” (1953); “The Origins of Totalitarianism: A Reply” (1953); “Karl Jaspers: Citizen of the World?” (1957); “What Is Authority?” (1958); “Society and Culture” (1960), “War and Revolution” (1963).

THE ARMENIAN AMIRA CLASS OF ISTANBUL

2007

The Armenian Amira Class of Istanbul is Hagop L. Barsoumian’s 1980 Doctoral dissertation at Columbia University. It is the first academic research ever done on the wealthy and powerful Ottoman Armenians, who from the mid-eighteenth to the nineteenth century played a significant role in the Empire and imposed their political leadership to the Armenian millet.

AUA: A NEW BEGINNING FOR A NEW GENERATION

2002

The recollections of Dr. Mihran S. Agbabian, founding president of the American University of Armenia (AUA), of the events and people involved with the establishment of the University. This is a first-hand memoir, chronicling AUA’s formative period through the perspective of its founding president, offering valuable insight into the University’s vision, challenges, and foundational developments.

A FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS OF ARMENIA

by Martin S. Adamian Daniel Klem, Jr.

1997

A Field Guide to Birds of Armenia clearly and effectively documents the bird life of a region largely unknown in the West but richly endowed with biological and cultural diversity. Here an international team of expert ornithologists shines the international spotlight on the fascinating birds of Armenia in one of the world’s newest and very best regional field guides. The authors and their expert collaborators describe the beauty and pleasure of Armenian birds and their diverse habitats. No other work offers such effective descriptions of Armenian birds. The detailed knowledge of species distributions and relative abundances will promote and ensure wise stewardship of birds as a valuable Armenian natural resource.

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